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cnn's dana bash joins me now. dana, this was long, 45 points. you got the sense of the people in the audience would have taken even more. >> 48 minutes and 30 seconds by the producers of this program's count. he went offscript as he does do, it was bill clinton after all. they certainly did eat it up. it was aspaech that the democratic party certainly was waiting for. >> reporter: this is the lasting image of the evening, an embrace four years ago few could imagine. but the former president made clear, bitterness over the bruising battle between his wife and obama is ancient history. repeatedly making case for four more years as only bill clinton can. >> if you wants a winner-take-all, your own your own society, you should support the republican ticket. but if you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibility, we're all in this together society, you should vote for barack obama and joe biden. >> reporter: the man who could famously feel your pain vouched for obama's empathy. >> i want to nominate a man who's cool on the outsid
cnn's dana bash joins me now. dana, this was long, 45 points. you got the sense of the people in the audience would have taken even more. >> 48 minutes and 30 seconds by the producers of this program's count. he went offscript as he does do, it was bill clinton after all. they certainly did eat it up. it was aspaech that the democratic party certainly was waiting for. >> reporter: this is the lasting image of the evening, an embrace four years ago few could imagine. but the former...
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he was didactic and funny and lengthy, but he was very, very good. >> dana, tell me about the moment when you know it was a surprise to the audience, but we got a head's up that the president was in the hall and taking the stage, but the moment when you saw him come out, and clinton bowed to him. and he bowed to him before he hugged him and that is a passing of the torch moment. >> wasn't that amazing? bill clinton did a interview before the speech and said it is not a bromance or anything, but it looked like it with that hug. and you covered the fight in 2008 from cover to cover, anna, and you nknow about the tension between the two of them, and we all do, but we also, anybody who has covered bill clinton and who has kind of tried to get into the head of bill clinton knows that he is somebody who loves to be loved and want and needed, because he is actually really good at what he does. he is a master politician. so the fact that president obama and his campaign and president obama, the person in particular has started to reach out to him over the past couple of years, asking him for
he was didactic and funny and lengthy, but he was very, very good. >> dana, tell me about the moment when you know it was a surprise to the audience, but we got a head's up that the president was in the hall and taking the stage, but the moment when you saw him come out, and clinton bowed to him. and he bowed to him before he hugged him and that is a passing of the torch moment. >> wasn't that amazing? bill clinton did a interview before the speech and said it is not a bromance or...
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i'm joinled by cnn's dana bash and a plate of cheese fries here at the dine rdiner. to me it seemed like a save reserve speech. >> it did and it was a speech given by someone who has changed dramatically, understandably so over the past four years when he was the candidate of hope and change. the message that he said and that he clearly wanted to get across was that he is somebody who will continue to work hard and tell people the truth. >> barack obama accepted his party's nomination with the kind of soaring rhetoric that got him elected four years ago, except hope and change were replaced by reality check. >> i recognize that times have changed since i first spoke to this convention. times have changed and so have i. i'm no longer just a candidate. i'm the president. >> yes, we can now a plea for patience. >> america, i never said this journey would be easy and i won't promise that now. yes, our path is harder but it leads to a better place. yes our road is longer but we travel it together. we don't turn back. we leave no one behind. >> but he still sprinkled in th
i'm joinled by cnn's dana bash and a plate of cheese fries here at the dine rdiner. to me it seemed like a save reserve speech. >> it did and it was a speech given by someone who has changed dramatically, understandably so over the past four years when he was the candidate of hope and change. the message that he said and that he clearly wanted to get across was that he is somebody who will continue to work hard and tell people the truth. >> barack obama accepted his party's...
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dana bash is standing by. dana, give us a little flavor. i'm looking out there a lot of empty seats so far. i'm sure it will be packed before the night is done, but so far not all the delegates, not all the invited guests are inside. >> no, not everybody is here. it has gotten a lot more crowded literally in the past ten minutes or so. but one thing i think is interesting to point out having -- all of us really having just come from the republican convention in tampa is that the democrats just simply have more people here because they have twice as many delegates as the republicans. so that is why you see -- each delegation for example right over here this is north carolina, they get a front row seat because we're in their home state. if this was the republican convention, they would have had three rows, but now they have from here all the way to the front because they have so many more delegates per state. that's sort of interesting. but you can feel the vibe is getting more excited. people are starting to trickle in and get ready for the
dana bash is standing by. dana, give us a little flavor. i'm looking out there a lot of empty seats so far. i'm sure it will be packed before the night is done, but so far not all the delegates, not all the invited guests are inside. >> no, not everybody is here. it has gotten a lot more crowded literally in the past ten minutes or so. but one thing i think is interesting to point out having -- all of us really having just come from the republican convention in tampa is that the democrats...
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. >> dana bash is standing by on the hill. what is swaekt clinton likely to say in response to some of that criticism coming from lawmakers? >> well, what she will say is going to be a big open question because fredrica, you know how these briefings go when a member of the administration is giving a classified briefing to the entire house of representatives and the entire senate. they tend to be a bit more cautious because they know that the reality is that some of those lawmakers come out and tell people, like you and me, what happened in there. i think, though, that the expectation, the hope from democrats and republicans, is they get more answers than they have been getting on what exactly went on and what the administration really thinks was behind the attacks, specifically the attacks on september 11th of this year in libya, but also more broadly, what is the genesis of a lot of these protests. john mccain, the senator from arizona, has been one of the most outspoken in his frustration about not only not getting informati
. >> dana bash is standing by on the hill. what is swaekt clinton likely to say in response to some of that criticism coming from lawmakers? >> well, what she will say is going to be a big open question because fredrica, you know how these briefings go when a member of the administration is giving a classified briefing to the entire house of representatives and the entire senate. they tend to be a bit more cautious because they know that the reality is that some of those lawmakers...
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dana, these briefings just wrapped up. what are you learning? what happened? >> what happened to according to members of congress in both parties is apparently not much new and that is not making some of them happy, especially those who are already the most vocal critics of the administration on what happened and their administration's reaction to the bombings in libya and other unrest throughout the middle east. listen to what john mccain said after he came out of the briefing for the senators. >> i learned nothing that i had, in fact, less than i had read or seen in the media. it's pretty obvious that there's very likely that there was a terrorist organization that affiliated with al qaeda that was in benghazi that had at least some role in this attack, which had mortars, had the equipment and rocket-propelled grenades. not exactly a spontaneous demonstration. >> senator, that was not something you were just told by the briefers in there. >> of course not. >> now, john mccain, of course, is a supporter of mitt romney. he is a staunch republican who has, agai
dana, these briefings just wrapped up. what are you learning? what happened? >> what happened to according to members of congress in both parties is apparently not much new and that is not making some of them happy, especially those who are already the most vocal critics of the administration on what happened and their administration's reaction to the bombings in libya and other unrest throughout the middle east. listen to what john mccain said after he came out of the briefing for the...
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dana, republican leaders were asked about romney throwing them under the bus. so what happened here? >> reporter: i actually asked the senator republican leader, mitch mcconnell, about that. it was really mitt romney dissing him and other republicans here for going along with this deal known as sequestration, automatic spending cuts. i want you to listen to the exchange that i had with him, but i also want you to look at the forced smile on mitch mcconnell's face. >> look, i don't have any interest in getting into a debate with the nominee of our party. i know -- i know you'd like me to do that, but i don't have any interest in doing that. you'll have to ask him why he said what he said. >> so he clearly didn't want to engage there. as for house speaker, john boehner, he was, of course, the one who was having the direct negotiations, ill-fated negotiations, with president obama, on the whole idea of cutting the budget, wicutting t deficit. that did not work and led to this whole sequestration. he responded to mitt romney's criticism by defending his own role. l
dana, republican leaders were asked about romney throwing them under the bus. so what happened here? >> reporter: i actually asked the senator republican leader, mitch mcconnell, about that. it was really mitt romney dissing him and other republicans here for going along with this deal known as sequestration, automatic spending cuts. i want you to listen to the exchange that i had with him, but i also want you to look at the forced smile on mitch mcconnell's face. >> look, i don't...
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cnn's senior congressional correspondent dana bash joining us from capitol hill. dana, what happened? >> reporter: well, if you look around me it looks pretty empty, i think. that's because it is. check this out. this is the house. they're gone. they left several hours ago to go home and campaign. and over here the senate, they're not far behind. in fact, this is the earliest, wolf, in more than half a century that congress is leaving town to go home and campaign. and it's probably pretty fitting for one of the most unproductive sessions in recent history. the capitol parking lot full of cars ready to whisk house members out of town. but not before both sides took final turns in the blame game that has voters fed up. >> this is simply irresponsible and republicans ought to come back and finish their work not cut and run and walk away from the american people. shame on them. >> president obama won't work with us to find common ground or urge senate democrats to take action. why? it's because democrats have failed to lead. >> reporter: the list of unfinished busines
cnn's senior congressional correspondent dana bash joining us from capitol hill. dana, what happened? >> reporter: well, if you look around me it looks pretty empty, i think. that's because it is. check this out. this is the house. they're gone. they left several hours ago to go home and campaign. and over here the senate, they're not far behind. in fact, this is the earliest, wolf, in more than half a century that congress is leaving town to go home and campaign. and it's probably pretty...